Join the team! We are always open to hosting applicants for external funding, or self-funded students. Positions for which funding has already been secured are listed below:

  • No funded postdoc positions are currently available. If any arise, the will be posted on https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/. Candidates must have strong experience in synthetic chemistry, with a preference for bioinorganic or glycoconjugate synthesis experience.
  • We do not currently have any fully funded PhD positions available in the team. If you would like to apply for a scholarship to join the group and work on a topic of your choice (e.g. supramolecular chemistry, carbohydrate/organic synthesis, coordination chemistry, antimicrobial research), please consider the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (opens October each year) or China Scholarship Scheme (opens in November each year)

We would welcome any potential Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellows MSCA-PF or Government of Ireland PhD/postdoc prospective applicants who want to write a project proposal in the area of applying carbohydrate-functionalised metal complexes, or related areas.

Informal enquiries are welcome, but due to high volume, replies are not guaranteed if your background is out of scope for the research group.

contact: joseph [dot] byrne [at] ucd [dot] ie or byrneresearchUCD [at] gmail [dot] com for more details.

[Updated November 2025]